? The top 10% of returns ($88,000 and up) paid 66% of all taxes, yet made only 45% of all income.
? The other 90% of all returns (below $88,000) paid only 33% of all taxes, yet made 55% of all income.
? And 48% of all returns required no payment of tax at all, or received a tax credit.
Yeah, gotta make "the rich" pay their "fair share."
In Canada, it's only the better off who fork out more
By Rosemary Speirs
Feature writer
November 6, 1999 Toronto Star
...In Canada, governments tax upper middle-income earners and the rich much more stiffly, and go easier on those with lower incomes. The poor, and those in the lower middle-income ranges, end up with more in their pockets in this country than they do in the States....